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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare & Collectors’ Sale. May 2, 2018

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Extremely Fine Copy of Fantasy Classic. Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, L. (George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Museum Street) 1937. €20,000 to €30,000

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Incunabula. [Sirectus, Antonius] O’Fihely (Maurice)Abp. Formalitates de Mente Doctoris Subtilis Scoti Nec Non Stephai Burlifer cum novis additionibus… Venice 14th December 1051 (ie. 1501). €3,000 to €4,000

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Original Book Illustrations by Pamela Leonard. Illustrations: Regan (Peter) Touchstone, 8vo D. (Mount Salas Press) 1989. €3,500 to €4,500

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare & Collectors’ Sale. May 2, 2018

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: [Petit (Jean), Prevel (Jean) & Gregory (Pope)] [Gregorius]. Compendium Textuale Compillationis decretalium Gregorri noni sine qua…, Paris [Dec. 1524]. €350 to €500

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Excessively Rare – V. Fine Copy. [Mac Mahon]. Jus Primatiale Armacanum, In Omnes Archiepiscopos, Episcopos, et Universum Clerum… [n.p.] 1728. €750 to €1,000

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Madden (R.R.). Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1824, 1825, 1826 and 1827, 2 vols. 1822. €500 to €700

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare & Collectors’ Sale. May 2, 2018

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Early English Herbal. Gerarde (John). The Herball or General History of Plants, thick folio L. (John Norton) 1597. €700 to €1,000

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: The Tehran World War 2 Conference Photograph: [Tehran Conference 1943] An important and iconic Group Photograph showing Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. €80 to €120

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Natural History Specimens from Jersey Jersey Islands: Westacton [Mrs Acton] Collection of 53 original dried examples of Seaweed collected in Jersey, c. 1860. €300 to €400

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare & Collectors’ Sale. May 2, 2018

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: Plyglot Bible: Hutteri (Eliae). Biblia Sacra, Ebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, Latinae, Germanice, Sclavonice. Lg. folio Nurimberg 1599. €250 to €350

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: The American Invasion 1888: “First Ever G.A.A. Hurling Match in America” Medal: G.A.A., The Invaders, 1888. €2,000 to €3,000

Fonsie Mealy, May 2: “Babe” Ruth and the G.A.A. G.A.A. & Baseball: A unique and early Sporting Association. An original Spalding B12 Baseball Bat. €4,000 to €6,000
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, wallpaper sample book, circa 1919. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Archive from a late office of the Breuer & Smith architectural team, New York, 1960-70s. $3,500 to $5,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men, illustrated by Walter Crane, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1894. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Gustave Doré, La Sainte Bible selon la Vulgate, Tours, 1866. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Gustav Klimt & Max Eisler, Eine Nachlese, complete set, Vienna, 1931. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Eric Allatini & Gerda Wegener, Sur Talons Rouges, with original watercolor by Wegener, Paris, 1929. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: C.P. Cavafy, Fourteen Poems, illustrated & signed by David Hockney, London, 1966. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: Jean Midolle, Spécimen des Écritures Modernes..., Strasbourg, 1834-35. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26: E.A. Seguy, Floréal: Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux, Paris, 1925. $3,000 to $4,000.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Spring Auction, Day 2
Auction Date: 05/22/2016 - 05/22/2016
Sale Number: #52216
Total Lots: 56
Sold Lots: 42
Lots Sold: 75.00%
Unsold Lots: 14

Total Sales (USD): 26,925.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 38,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 57,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 58,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 85,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 31.42%

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Bonhams: Results from Fine Books and Manuscripts on March 9, 2018

Bonhams, Mar. 9: BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN. Autograph Manuscript sketch-leaf part of the score of the Scottish Songs, "Sunset" Op. 108 no 2. [Vienna, February 1818]. Inscribed by Alexander Wheelock Thayer. SOLD for $131,250

Bonhams, Mar. 9: Violin belonging to Albert Einstein, presented to him by Oscar H. Steger, 1933. SOLD for $516,500

Bonhams, Mar. 9: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Autograph Letter Signed ("Papa") to his son Hans Albert, discussing his involvement with the atomic bomb, September 2, 1945. SOLD for $106,250

Bonhams: Results from Fine Books and Manuscripts on March 9, 2018

Bonhams, Mar. 9: HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. Autograph Letter Signed, to Baron von Steuben, with extensive notes of Von Steuben's aide Benjamin Walker, June 12, 1780. SOLD for $16,250

Bonhams, Mar. 9: NEWTON, ISAAC. Autograph Manuscript in Latin, being detailed instructions on making the philosopher's stone. 8 pp. 1790s. SOLD for $275,000

Bonhams, Mar. 9: 1869 Inauguration Bible of President Ulysses S. Grant. SOLD for $118,750
Doyle, April 25: E.H. SHEPARD, Original drawing for A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner. $40,000-60,000

Doyle, April 25: BERNARD RATZER, Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. $80,000-100,000

Doyle, April 25: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Autograph letter signed comparing Logan, Tecumseh, and Little Turtle to the Spartans. Monticello: 15 February 1821. $14,000-18,000

Doyle, April 25: JOHN C. FREMONT, Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year 1842.. Abridged edition, the only one containing the folding map From the Sporting Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson. $3,000-5,000

Doyle, April 25: ZANE GREY, Album containing 94 large format photographs of Grey and party at Catalina Island, Arizona, and fishing in the Pacific. From the Sporting Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson. $5,000-$8,000

Doyle, April 25: WILLIAM COMBE, A History of Madeira ... illustrative of the Costumes, Manners, and Occupations of the Inhabitants. produced by Ackermann in 1821; From the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000

Doyle, April 25: ERIC TAVERNER, Salmon Fishing... One of 275 copies signed by Taverner, published in 1931,From the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000

Doyle, April 25: JOHN WHITEHEAD, Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. Whitehead reached the high point of Kinabalu in 1888. Part of a major group of travel books from the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000

Doyle, April 25: JOHN LONG, Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians... The first edition of 1791. $3,000-$5,000

Doyle, April 25: SAMUEL BECKETT, Stirrings Still. This, Beckett’s last work of fiction with original lithographs by Le Brocquy, limited to 200 copies signed by the author and the artist. From the Estate of Howard Kaminsky.. $1,500-$2,500

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